Nov. 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 4293

ADDENDUM.

With reference to the notification published in the N.Z. Gazette No. 160, of the 18th October, 1917, relating to Honorary Lieutenant Frederick J. Mackintosh, Unattached List (b), after the words “Unattached List (b)” add “On proceeding with the N.Z. Expeditionary Force.”

ERRATA.

With reference to the notice published in the N.Z. Gazette No. 143, of the 16th December, 1915, under the heading “New Zealand Army Service Corps,” for the words “The undermentioned Lieutenants to be Captains. Dated 14th December, 1914,” read “The undermentioned Lieutenants to be Captains. Dated 14th September, 1915.”

With reference to the notification published in the N.Z. Gazette No. 132, of the 23rd August, 1917, relating to Captain William H. Fraser, 9th (Hawke’s Bay) Regiment, for the words “17th September, 1917,” read “7th September, 1917.”

With reference to the notice published in the N.Z. Gazette No. 160, of the 18th October, 1917, under the heading “New Zealand Field Artillery,” delete the names of Lieutenant Edwin James Phillips and 2nd Lieutenant George Falkland Gardiner.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

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Award of Meritorious-service Medal.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 20th November, 1917.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve, in accordance with paragraph 12, Appendix IX. Regulations for the Military Forces of New Zealand, 1913, of the award of the Meritorious-service Medal to

Staff Sergeant-major JOHN EDWARD PACKMAN, New Zealand Permanent Staff.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

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Arrangements for First Election, &c., Mangaorongo Road District.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 15th November, 1917.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

STEPHEN I. GOODALL, Esq., Farmer, of Maihihi,

as Returning Officer and person to prepare ratepayers roll for the purposes of the first election of seven members of the Board of the Mangaorongo Road District as constituted under section 27 of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1916.

Also to appoint Saturday, the 8th day of December, 1917, as the day, and the Maihihi Settlers’ Hall, Maihihi, to be the place, for holding the said first election.

Also to appoint Saturday, the 15th day of December at noon as the time, and the said Maihihi Settlers’ Hall as the place, for holding the first meeting of the Board so elected.

J. A. HANAN,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

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Endowment Reserves for Education sanctioned by Parliament.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 15th November, 1917.

THE following resolutions passed by the Legislative Council and by the House of Representatives are published in accordance with section 324 of the Land Act, 1908.

J. A. HANAN,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

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EXTRACT FROM THE JOURNALS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, FRIDAY, THE 17TH DAY OF AUGUST, AND 12TH DAY OF OCTOBER, 1917.

RESOLVED, “That the report of the Lands Committee on the proposals contained in Papers Nos. 138 and 246, to reserve permanently lands as endowments for primary education, be agreed to.”

A true extract.

L. STOWE,
Clerk of the Legislative Council.

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EXTRACT FROM THE JOURNALS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

RESOLVED, “That this House approves of the lands specified in Papers Nos. 146 and 318 of this session being permanently reserved as endowments for primary education as therein set forth, in terms of section 324 of the Land Act, 1908.”

On the motion of Right Hon. Mr. Massey.

A true extract.

A. F. LOWE,
Clerk, House of Representatives.

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SCHEDULE OF EDUCATIONAL ENDOWMENTS REFERRED TO IN ABOVE RESOLUTIONS.

Primary-education Reserves.

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Notice fixing the Closing-hours of Chemists’ Shops in the Borough of Newmarket, under the Shops and Offices Act.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the chemists’ shops within the Borough of Newmarket, has been forwarded to me, desiring that all such shops in the borough shall be closed in the evening of working-days as follows: Subject to the closing at not later than 1 p.m. for the statutory half-holiday in each week, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 6 p.m.; Friday, 9.30 p.m.; Saturday, 9 p.m. on every Saturday in the year except on the Saturday after Good Friday and on the Saturday in the Christmas and New Year weeks, when the closing-hour shall be 9.30 p.m., and except on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, when the closing-hour shall be 11 p.m. (Note.—The statutory half-holiday is on Saturday, on which day chemists’ shops may reopen from 7 p.m. till 9 p.m. only for the supply of medicines and surgical appliances):

And whereas the Newmarket Borough Council has certified that the signatures to such requisition represent a majority of the occupiers of all the chemists’ shops within the Borough of Newmarket:

Now, therefore, I, William Ferguson Massey, Minister of Labour, in pursuance of section 25 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1908, do hereby direct that on and after the 28th day of November, 1917, all chemists’ shops in the Borough of Newmarket shall be closed as follows: On Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at 6 p.m., and on Fridays at 9.30 p.m., with the following exceptions—(a) Should the occupier of any chemist’s shop in the Borough of Newmarket comply with the requirements of the Shops and Offices Act relating to the weekly half-holiday on Good Friday or Christmas Day or New Year’s Day, then the closing-hour for any such shop on the day usually observed as the statutory closing-day, in the week in which such holiday falls, shall be 9.30 p.m.; (b) the working-day immediately preceding Christmas Day and the working-day immediately preceding New Year’s Day, when the closing-hour shall be 11 p.m.

The notice gazetted on the 1st day of February, 1906, is hereby varied accordingly, and the notice gazetted on the 25th day of November, 1915, is hereby cancelled.

Dated at Wellington this 7th day of November, 1917.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Labour.

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Appointment of Wharf.

IN exercise of the power in me for this purpose vested, I, Arthur Mielziner Myers, Minister of Customs, do by this warrant appoint that the Onehunga Wharf, Manukau Harbour, Port of Auckland, shall be a wharf for the lading and unlading of goods at the said port.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this 16th day of November, 1917.

ARTHUR M. MYERS,
Minister of Customs.

Minister’s Order No. 1101.]